Geography Of Djibouti

Location	Eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, between Eritrea and Somalia
Geographic coordinates	11 30 N, 43 00 E
Map references	africa
Area	total: 23,000 sq km water: 20 sq km land: 22,980 sq km
Area comparative	slightly smaller than Massachusetts
Land boundaries	total: 516 km border countries: Eritrea 109 km, Ethiopia 349 km, Somalia 58 km
Coastline	314 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Climate	desert; torrid, dry
Terrain	coastal plain and plateau separated by central mountains
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Lac Assal -155 m highest point: Moussa Ali 2,028 m
Natural resources	geothermal areas
Land use	arable land: 0.04% permanent crops: 0% other: 99.96% (2001)
Irrigated land	10 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards	earthquakes; droughts; occasional cyclonic disturbances from the Indian Ocean bring heavy rains and flash floods
Environment - current issues	inadequate supplies of potable water; limited arable land; desertification; endangered species
Environment - international agreements	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography note	strategic location near world's busiest shipping lanes and close to Arabian oilfields; terminus of rail traffic into Ethiopia; mostly wasteland; Lac Assal (Lake Assal) is the lowest point in Africa

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This information was reproduced in part from the CIA World Fact book.

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